Overdue project

[Harry]

Phase one complete today. I’ll have to do multiple posts as this progresses. This is a movable stand for a large vise or maybe my beverly shear. Instead of mounted on a table the stand will provide access all around what ever I have in the vice. The base is a big tractor weight that I picked up in a bundle deal when i purchased the end cap weights that I installed on the 646. The post is a scrap pipe left over from a job I did for a plating company. It was a hydraulic line that a employee over charged a line. Can you imagine the pressure on this 4” schedule 89 pipe. I cut the flanges off and welded them on another pipe. Then they bent another one. So I did a second one. I took the least bent pipe for the post. The top plate was something that has been on the weld table for years. A sleeve inside the tractor weight goes inside post so no welding on the weight. Top plate was drilled and tapped fir 1/2” bolts. Next post it should be completed.

[myerslawnandgarden]

Nice work, Harry!

I can only imagine what a vice like that would cost new today.

Bob